JANUARY 27, 2024

First Congregational Church of Boulder/UCC is honored to welcome

Dr. Anthea Butler as its speaker for the MacKenzie Lectureship Weekend, February 23 and 24. Please join us for the Lecture,

Reception and Workshop!

2024 MacKenzie Lecture

Religion, Race, and the Struggle to Retain Democracy in America

Friday, February 23 - Noon

Meeting with Students on the CU Campus

Friday, February 23 - 7:00 PM

MacKenzie Lecture, Followed by Reception

Location: First Congregational Church UCC, Boulder - 1128 Pine St Boulder, CO 80302

Also online here.

Saturday, February 24 - 9-11:30 AM

Workshop on Religion, Race and Politics Nationally and Internationally, Featuring

CU Faculty and Graduate Students Interacting with Dr. Butler

Location: First Congregational Church UCC, Boulder

1128 Pine St Boulder, CO 80302

About the Speaker

Anthea Butler is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social thought and Chair

of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. A historian of African American and American religion, Professor Butler’s research and writing spans African American religion and American Religious history, race, politics, Evangelicalism, media, and popular culture. 

Butler’s recent book is White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America on Ferris and Ferris/UNC Press. Professor Butler also is a contributor to The 1619 Book: A New Beginning, with a chapter entitled “Church”. Her first book is Women in the Church

of God in Christ: Making A Sanctified World, also published by UNC Press.

A sought-after commentator, Professor Butler is an op-ed contributor for MSNBC.

Her articles have also been featured in the New York Times, The Washington Post,

CNN, NBC, and The Guardian.